I am very interested in this! I am currently having conversations with a professor at the Royal institute of Technology here in Sweden about something similar to this. He would like to restructure the idea of what the grades at uni are actually rewarding. We're currently rewarding knowledge oneself is possessing rather than encouraging the dissemination of knowledge, which this professor is interested in. We were talking about the possibility to grade successful dissemination of knowledge rather than the ability to write down what one has in her or his head in an exam. So there would be a societal gain where grading is based on telling and sharing ofthe knowledge one has acquired, which can be done in various ways, rather than encouraging the current system with exams and such.
This would, in this aspect, be rather interesting. Thank you for sharing!
/ Sophie.
2013/2/28 Pau Cabot paucabot@gmail.com
I didn't know about it. It seems very interesting: http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/docs/instructors/
.. but I don't see very clear if it goes in the same direction as Sugata Mitra (great great video, by the way)
Pau.
2013/2/27 James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com
This year the TED conference awarded their top prize to this talk by Sugata Mitra entitled "Build a School in the Cloud": http:// http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html
The point of the talk is asking for educational technologists to design and offer peer-oriented learning systems. But such systems already exist. The most advanced of which at present is called PeerWise: http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/
In short, PeerWise is an automated self-study, low-stakes assessment system where both questions and answers are edited and reviewed by anyone (with access; in practice this usually means anyone enrolled in a course or major at an institution) very similarly to textual content in a wiki. It is already being used successfully at hundreds of higher education and other institutions. But sadly it's closed source. I have since 2009 been trying to encourage the Foundation to build an open source version of such a system.
Is there anyone else interested in this?
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